The crossing into Ethiopia on day 15 was trouble free, with an official at the immigration office taking no more than 5 minutes to check our passports, take our fingerprints, ask some standard questions, and release us into the care of customs. Very similar process to the USA, except for the lack of uniforms. Customs … More The Land Where Latte Began
The crossing into Sudan was relatively straightforward. Apart from the official who let our documents sit quietly on his desk for an hour, just to show the world that he could. The result was a lot of waiting around, fortunately in the shade behind the immigration building where carbon paper and forms in triplicate are … More The Country With No Beer
Official Day 2 of C2C in Egypt was a catch up of true tourist activity for the whole team, now with motorcycles in the hotel car park as solid proof of coolness while striding amongst the non-riding mostly Chinese tourists. The pyramids are a bit like the Eiffel Tower and Empire State building; you have … More Ride Like an Egyptian
Refreshed and ready for action after 18 flying hours and less than 3 hours sleep, we arrived into Cairo in the early afternoon of Sunday 15th January to commence the adventure. Cindy was the only western lady in the airport arrivals hall, an accurate indicator of the destruction of the tourist industry since the revolution … More C2A, A2C, C2A, A2C, C2A, and finally A2C to start the C2C
Looking through some inspirational quotes on adventures the other day, I note that Roald Amundsen said: “Adventure is just bad planning”. Given that Roald actually put weight on while being first to the South Pole in 1911, he was clearly very good at planning and executing. As I’ve normally put weight on during our motorcycling … More Planning to Plan the Cairo to Cape Town, or P2P the C2C
It is now just 4 weeks until Duncan and I depart to Cairo for our 80 day trip, riding Cairo to Cape Town with 7 other adventurers from Australia, France, Canada and USA. The last couple of months have sped by in a flurry of preparations including getting the bikes ready to ship, buying spares … More The countdown to Africa…
We left Part 2 Bear Spray, Eh? at the point of commencing our Banff rest day, which turned out to be the only day of the trip that the motorcycles were not pressured into taking us anywhere. Laundry normally takes precedence over all other rest day activity, but fortunately a full express service was discovered … More Part 3 – Don’t Pay the Ferryman
We left Part 1 IPA in the USA at the point of impending departure from the very budget motel in Lewiston Idaho on day six of the adventure to continue east on Highway 12. It is unlikely that any day of the trip had been so thoroughly scrutinised, analysed, Google Earthed and finally coin-tossed, due … More Part 2 – Bear Spray Eh?
The reason for our two week riding holiday in western USA and Canada actually began 100 years ago on the 1st July 1916 in Picardy, north eastern France. At 7:30 in the morning, the battle of the Somme commenced after a week of intense bombardment of the well-prepared German lines just east of Albert, with … More Part 1 – IPA in the USA
Stories of pumas and panthers wandering the outer urban and rural areas of Australia abound. Most have heard the rumours; the large felines were brought over by American soldiers in WW2 and were released, they escaped from a zoo, or they were the result of a crazy cat lady’s pet numbers reaching critical mass. Rarely … More The Black Panther Tour
